Astrophysics

Scientists have developed a new model to predict how much “gravity waves” could alter a star’s brightness

New measurements from Japan’s Subaru telescope have helped researchers study the matter-antimatter asymmetry problem

Experts weigh in on the most shocking, paradigm-shifting and delightful findings in the history of physics

Astrophysicist Aomawa Shields recounts her alternative career path in a new memoir about life, space and motherhood

Astronomers are piecing together the final moments of supernova 2023ixf and learning more about it than any other in recent history

Stars fueled by the self-annihilation of dark matter might have been spotted for the first time by JWST

A trio of solar flares from a departing sunspot include one major flare that lasted several hours

Earth-based analogs are opening new frontiers in studies of the superdense interiors of neutron stars

Astronomers found two colliding galaxies dating back to less than 500 million years after the big bang

The disk of our galaxy was long thought to produce these ghostly high-energy particles, but they haven’t been detected until now

Astrophysicists are tuning in to a never-before-seen type of gravitational wave spawned by pairs of supermassive black holes

Astrophysicist Farhad Yusef-Zadeh has spent decades peering into the center of the Milky Way galaxy, discovering hundreds of enigmatic filaments in the process